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National Geographic about sea-level rise in this month's issue:
Rising Seas
Rising Seas
As the planet warms, the sea rises. Coastlines flood. What will we protect? What will we abandon? How will we face the danger of rising seas?
By Tim Folger
Photographs by George Steinmetz
By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled several countries in the Caribbean and left dozens dead. Faced with the largest storm ever spawned over the Atlantic, New York and other cities ordered mandatory evacuations of low-lying areas. Not everyone complied. Those who chose to ride out Sandy got a preview of the future, in which a warmer world will lead to inexorably rising seas.
Read online article PS: My weekly blog post will follow tomorrow.
Topic: learning from global cities. Example Hamburg HafenCity and IBA.
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Klaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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